My newly purchased OSS driver delivers very nice sound with my Soundblaster Live! card under FreeBSD 5.3, but I have no volume or mixer control under X. This happens regardless of whether I use a generic window manager like indowmaker or KDE, with or without the ARTS sound system being enabled.

My newly purchased OSS driver delivers very nice sound with my Soundblaster Live! card under FreeBSD 5.3, but I have no volume or mixer control under X. This happens regardless of whether I use a generic window manager like indowmaker or KDE, with or without the ARTS sound system being enabled.

My newly purchased OSS driver delivers very nice sound with my Soundblaster Live! card under FreeBSD 5.3, but I have no volume or mixer control under X. This happens regardless of whether I use a generic window manager like indowmaker or KDE, with or without the ARTS sound system being enabled.

My newly purchased OSS driver delivers very nice sound with my Soundblaster Live! card under FreeBSD 5.3, but I have no volume or mixer control under X. This happens regardless of whether I use a generic window manager like indowmaker or KDE, with or without the ARTS sound system being enabled.

My newly purchased OSS driver delivers very nice sound with my Soundblaster Live! card under FreeBSD 5.3, but I have no volume or mixer control under X. This happens regardless of whether I use a generic window manager like indowmaker or KDE, with or without the ARTS sound system being enabled.

Suggestions appreciated.

What about using ossxmix?

regardsDev Mazumdar

One of the first things I tried. No go.

Thanks for your time.

TXLogic

What's the error from running ossxmix?

RegardsDev Mazumdar

No error, it just doesn't do anything. The volume and mixer sliders move up and down just fine, they just have no effect whatever on the sound. Only thing that does is the volume knob on the speakers.

My newly purchased OSS driver delivers very nice sound with my Soundblaster Live! card under FreeBSD 5.3, but I have no volume or mixer control under X. This happens regardless of whether I use a generic window manager like indowmaker or KDE, with or without the ARTS sound system being enabled.

Suggestions appreciated.

What about using ossxmix?

regardsDev Mazumdar

One of the first things I tried. No go.

Thanks for your time.

TXLogic

What's the error from running ossxmix?

RegardsDev Mazumdar

No error, it just doesn't do anything. The volume and mixer sliders move up and down just fine, they just have no effect whatever on the sound. Only thing that does is the volume knob on the speakers.

TXLogic

That's because you have a CMI97xx AC97 device that doesn't handle volume correctly.
The only way to do audio and control the volume is to symlink /dev/dsp to /dev/dsp3 (the first virtual mixer device) and then use ossxmix -d1 and control the volume that way.

My newly purchased OSS driver delivers very nice sound with my Soundblaster Live! card under FreeBSD 5.3, but I have no volume or mixer control under X. This happens regardless of whether I use a generic window manager like indowmaker or KDE, with or without the ARTS sound system being enabled.

Suggestions appreciated.

What about using ossxmix?

regardsDev Mazumdar

One of the first things I tried. No go.

Thanks for your time.

TXLogic

What's the error from running ossxmix?

RegardsDev Mazumdar

No error, it just doesn't do anything. The volume and mixer sliders move up and down just fine, they just have no effect whatever on the sound. Only thing that does is the volume knob on the speakers.

TXLogic

That's because you have a CMI97xx AC97 device that doesn't handle volume correctly.The only way to do audio and control the volume is to symlink /dev/dsp to /dev/dsp3 (the first virtual mixer device) and then use ossxmix -d1 and control the volume that way.

regardsDev

Damn I knew that CMI97xx AC97 device looked like trouble! Thanks, that works (though I had to symlink dsp to dsp4, not dsp3). And I can control the volume with xmms (though ossxmis works as well).